Full Professor at the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), Campus São Carlos, CNPq Research Productivity Fellow 1A. He is coordinator of the IARA network, Artificial Intelligence Recreating Environments. He was and Vice-President of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), from 2019 to 2023, member of the CNPq Computer Science Advisory Committee (CA-CC), from 2018 to 2021 (coordinator from 2019 to 2020). From 2013 to 2017, he was member of the board of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), of the International Institute of Statistics.He holds a Bachelor's degree (1987) and a Master's Degree in Computer Science (1990) from the Federal University of Pernambuco, and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent (1994). His main research interests are Machine Learning, Data Mining and Data Science, with applications in various areas. Author of several books, including Inteligência Artificial: Uma abordagem de Aprendizado de Máquina, published by GrupoGen in 2011 and Jabuti Award in 2012, and A General Introduction to Data Analytics, published by Wiley, in 2018.Evaluates projects for national research funding agencies, CAPES, CNPq, FAPESP, FACEPE, FAPEMIG, FINEP and Fundação Serrapilheira, and international, NSERC (Canada), The Leverhulme Trust (UK), EPSRC UK), GACR (Czech Republic), CONICYT (Chile), Croatian Science Foundation (Croatia) and MIUR (Italy). He is Dean of ICMC-USP and the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences for Industry at USP. He was member of the CNPq Computer Science Advisory Committee (CA-CC), of the Consultative Council of the MCTI-EMBRAPII network on Innovation in Artificial Intelligence, of the Science for Education Network (CpE), of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), of the University Council of the Universidade de São Paulo, of the Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) and of the Strategy and Partnerships Board of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI (ART-AI), at University of Bath, UK. Associate member of the Artificial Intelligence Institute - Te Ipu o te Mahara of the University of Waikato, New Zealand and of the Governance Group of the Brazilian Strategy of Artificial Intelligence (EBIA) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations, of the Technological Council of the Fund Management Association Equity Chronos (CHRONOS) and of the Governance Committee of Geographical Indications (IG) São Carlos. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project defines the Application Plan of the Portion of the Technical Reserve for Institucional Infrastructure Costs for Research - ICMC. The project includes resources for the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure and its datacenter, known as Cloud-ICMC. Cloud-ICMC has been jointly, since 2013, the general computational demands of all 33 ICMC research groups and this project will c…
The Applied Research Center for in Artificial Intelligence, IARA, is formed by a multidisciplinary team, with national experts of internationally recognized for their competence in artificial intelligence, internet of things telecommunications and smart cities. The center, hosted in São Carlos, in the state of São Paulo, will work in network with researchers from all Brazilian regions, or…
Mobility plays a central role in various related activities we conduct, especially in work, commerce, industry and leisure. The study of mobility for different purposes (e.g., economics, public services, academic study) should be done in a systematic way since from the scientific point of view it is the most fundamental issue that must be studied, so proper solutions can be proposed. Thus…
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This project is intended to oppiy the portion of the Technical Reserve for maintenance of the ICMC computing infrastructure. The project includes resources for the maintenance of the lnstitute's own cloud infrastructure, called Cloud-ICMC, and for improving the coverage of the wireless access network, mainly to attend advanced communication technologies. Since 2013, Cloud-ICMC has shared …
Without being aware, we are using technologies based on Machine learning (ML) algorithms in a growing number of our daily activities. The use of ML has made many risk and tiring activities safer, more reliable and more accurate. Despite these contributions, new demands require the development of new ML algorithms, or use of these algorithms in new and innovative ways. Two important curren…
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Science has been seeking tools to assist in the early diagnosis of diseases, especially developmental disorders in children. The study and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders benefit from tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which enables the capture of brain activation through the BOLD contrast. However, these data are complex, and machine learning tools, particular…
The objective of this work is to investigate two classes of reinforcement learning algorithms for the development of High-Frequency Trading strategies: Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms and Reinforcement Learning algorithms through Evolutionary Optimizers. Initially, we propose the development of a realistic simulator of the Brazilian stock market, with the purpose of allowing the tr…
Machine learning has been applied to many problems in the last decades, reaching expressive results, especially on computer vision, highly attributed to approaches like deep learning algorithms. In the context of medical applications for computer-aided diagnostic from images, the use of deep learning algorithms is highly valuable, being a field traditionally linked to advances in computer…
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The generation of highly realistic urban environments and artificial cities is of great interest to the entertainment industry as well as for the creation of true-to-life simulation sceneries on the lack of real-world data. Being based on a set of features found in real cities, the methods for the said purpose more often than not show the capability of replicating properties such as zonin…
When it was discovered that at least 80% of the human genome is biologically active, the non-coding content of the human genome was no longer viewed solely as "junk" DNA. Non-coding sequences have eventually gained increasing space in recent research for important roles involving physiological processes in organisms. Small non-coding RNAs then gain a greater relevance to fundamentally und…
Sentiment Analysis is a fundamental task for understanding people's opinions regarding subjects, people or products, allowing to improve processes in different social and commercial segments. With the use of Machine Learning, it was possible to process a massive amount of data and achieve promising results. However, the models used, in their majority, are considered black box models, beca…
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Different microbial communities inhabit the different regions of the human body, whether mouth, gut, vagina, or others. They are collectively called the Human Microbiome (HM). These communities participate in essential processes in human health. Thus, a better understanding of the human core microbiome may help early diagnosis of disorders and contribute to potentially more efficient trea…
Forecasting is one of the main tasks of time series analysis. Selecting forecasting models is a crucial decision-making step in many real-world applications. To obtain forecasts that best explain the variables of interest in the future, it is necessary to select the model that best fits a given time series. However, the selection task can be quite computationally expensive due to many ava…
Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) is one of the pivotal research areas in computer science. Machine learning leverages efficient NNS algorithms to speed up distance-based algorithms. However, most online nearest neighbor-based learning algorithms still rely on brute-force search strategies to this day. This research project is primarily concerned with the sliding window-based online k-Nearest…
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